#Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

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Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Niterói, Brazil

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Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói — MAC) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Designed By Oscar Niemeyer In 1991 and completed in 1996.

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Oscar Niemeyer

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1996

Photo: Ulli Zupin

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Niterói Contemporary Art Museum,  Niterói, Brazi / Oscar Niemeyer, 1996

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#74Finds — Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (MAC), Brazil arch. O Niemeyer Ph. @leonardofinotti

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Oscar Niemeyer - Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1996

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Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1991

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#74Finds — Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (MAC), Brazil

Completed in 1996, the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (MAC) in Rio de Janeiro is a striking landmark designed by Oscar Niemeyer with structural support from Bruno Contarini. The museum, elevated 16 meters with a 50-meter diameter cupola, stands out with its modernist, saucer-shaped design, which Niemeyer likened to a flower floating above a reflective pool.

Housing over 1,200 works from art collector João Sattamini, MAC boasts the second-largest collection of contemporary art in Brazil. Its design features a wide access slope leading to an exhibition hall with views of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, and Sugarloaf Mountain. The building’s unique, UFO-like appearance has been a subject of fascination, even inspiring a scene in the film "Oscar Niemeyer, an Architect Committed to His Century," where the museum is humorously depicted as landing from the sky.

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Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi

The MAC-Niterói was designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini, who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects. The structure is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 meters with three floors. The museum has a collection of 1,217 works from the art collector João Sattamini. The collection was assembled since the 1950s by Sattamini, constituting the second largest collection of contemporary art in Brazil.

The museum projects itself over Boa Viagem (“Bon Voyage,” “Good Journey”) beach and also a neighborhood, the 817 square metres (8,790 sq ft) reflecting pool that surrounds the cylindrical base “like a flower,” in the words of Niemeyer.

A wide access slope leads to a Hall of Expositions, which has a capacity for sixty people. Two doors lead to the viewing gallery, through which can be seen Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, and Sugarloaf Mountain. The saucer-shaped modernist structure, which has been likened to a UFO, is set on a cliffside, at the bottom of which is a beach. In the film Oscar Niemeyer, an architect committed to his century, Niemeyer is seen flying over Rio de Janeiro in a UFO which then lands on the site, suggesting this to be the origin of the museum.

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Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Oscar Niemeyer, 1996

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Niterói Contemporary Art Museum designed by Brazillian architect Oscar Niemeyer. 1996 (Photo: Marcelo Nacinovic)

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Niterói Contemporary Art Museum by Oscar Niemeyer

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Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

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by Andre Chiote.

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MY FIRST PRITZKER

A list of the 41 winners of this incredible prize.

1988 • Oscar Niemeyer • Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

1989 • Frank Gehry • Guggenheim Museum

1990 • Aldo Rossi • Bonnefanten Museum

1991 • Robert Venturi • Vanna Venturi House

1992 • Alvaro Siza • Servei de Meteorologica

1993 • Fumihiko Maki • Iwasaki Art Museum